Mike Vizard

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know The first fruits of an alliance between Seagate and Micron manifested themselves this week in the form of 4TB solid-state drives (SSDs) that should start showing up in servers and storage systems later this year. Kent Smith, senior director of product marketing for Seagate Flash, says […]

Five Common Data Encryption Myths Aiming to provide a closed-loop approach to IT security, Hewlett-Packard this week at the Black Hat 2015 conference unveiled an HP TippingPoint Threat Protection System designed to provide actionable intelligence that gets used to remediate vulnerabilities in real time. Don Closser, vice president and general manager for TippingPoint within the […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape In what may prove to be a major performance boost for applications, Diablo Technologies announced today an implementation of all-Flash memory technology that provides a faster, less expensive alternative to DRAM. Jerome McFarland, principal product marketer for Diablo Technologies, says the Memory1 Flash technology can provide up to […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network At the Black Hat 2015 conference today, Qualys announced a free asset inventory service delivered via the cloud based on the same agent software the company uses to deliver security intelligence services. Looking to unify asset management and security intelligence using the same lightweight 2MB agent software, Sumedh Thakar, […]

As the root cause of a raft of economic and geopolitical issues, the way energy gets distributed and consumed winds up having a major impact on every human being on the planet. The Siebel Energy Institute, launched this week, wants to reduce all the tension surrounding energy resource allocation by providing $10 million worth of […]

In the Cloud or on the Golf Course, Hazards Can Be Devastating At the Black Hat 2015 conference this week, Alert Logic announced the general availability of a vulnerability and configuration management service specifically designed for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing environments. Rahul Bakshi, senior director of product for Alert Logic, says Cloud Insight […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know One of the things that bedevils IT organizations most is that the more applications they add to their environment, the greater the contention there is for a limited number of I/O storage resources. To address that issue, ioFABRIC today unveiled ioFABRIC Vicinity, software that automates much […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization With the number and types of virtual machines that IT organizations need to manage proliferating with each passing day, many IT organizations are past the point where they can keep track of which virtual machine is being used when, where and for what purpose. To help IT address […]

A Guide to Switching Development Teams in the Midst of a Project The explosion in the number of application development projects that IT organizations are trying to manage means that IT leadership teams are often hard-pressed to keep track of which projects are falling behind schedule. To provide IT managers with more visibility into those […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues When managing IT, it seems every product comes with its own set of monitoring tools, and then each department or division with the organization standardizes on different sets of tools. In fact, a survey of 300 IT professionals in North America and Europe conducted by Enterprise Management […]

How to Better Integrate Cloud Apps by Managing the Integration Lifecycle Just about every IT organization recognizes at least the potential that the Internet of Things (IoT) represents in terms of transforming the business model of the companies for which they work. Figuring out how to harness the IoT is another matter altogether. To help […]

How to Better Integrate Cloud Apps by Managing the Integration Lifecycle One of the things that might have gotten lost in the barrage of cloud services that Oracle recently launched is a shift of focus in terms of where Oracle is looking to advance its integration capabilities. Amit Zavery, senior vice president of cloud platforms […]